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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Major Decision, Tabling A Work

I have come to a decision when it
comes to my Evangelism tool. If you don’t know what I’m talking
about, let me give you a quick history. I started developing a
resource to help students reach out to friends. My premise was
simple, students want to reach out, but they don’t plan for it.
Everything they do is planned, timed and scheduled. To really share
their faith, they need to schedule that too. The plan was to make a
way for them to plan to share. This simple plan became a book, a
tool to help people plan for outreach. I started this project in
2006, the book is complete is a couple different forms, with constant
updates. It needs some editing but I have shared it with others,
they have used it and everyone seems to think it’s a good resource.

I had thoughts of finishing the
editing and putting it up on Amazon for e-readers. I want going to
make it digitally available for people, but I have come to a decision
that I won’t do that. Let me explain my reasoning.

There is a problem in today’s
evangelical culture. That problem is that most professing
evangelicals are active in evangelism. Many want to be, they know
they should be and they give it a shot from time to time, but seldom
do they actually share their faith. Most admit it, you can find all
sorts of stats about the few number of those who regularly attend
church who also share their faith. It’s a problem, and I think the
church as a whole has failed. The problem is that we have lots of
resources without aquatley planning for people to use them.

It’s like we took a group of
people and trained them how to use a chain saw, but never took them
to a forest to use them. Sure, there are trees all around the
people, but they never consider cutting them down. We have given
people tools, but very rarely we set them up with opportunities.
They are trained, but so often the church doesn’t plan to go. The
problem to go along with that is we schedule so many times for them
to come to church, but we never schedule times to go out. When you
take time to schedule evangelism and give people the tools, they
share. I have worked with people in FAITH Evangelism and gone out in
teams of three and shared our faith. I have done door to door work
with adults and youth on many, many occasions and they shared their
faith. I have gone with people to the mall, the park, the store and
the neighborhoods and they have shared their faith, because we
scheduled it and gave them a chance to use the tools in a supportive
environment.

Face it evangelicals, we have a
problem. We have failed and I don’t want to throw another book at
the problem. I want Not Equipped for Failure (the current title) to
be just another book. It might help a few who read it, but I want to
make a difference. My vision is not just a book, but a training,
videos, teaching aids and churches using it to create an outreach
program that helps people GO. I want to be able to send out the
material, book and video and teaching aids. I want to go to
churches, meet people who want to share, show them they can do it and
go out with them and let them see they can be successful. I can’t
just put my book on Amazon and hope it helps people, I have a passion
to help people with my material.

If you want help, if your church
wants help making a successful outreach program and enlists, empowers
and engages people, please call me. If you want your church to LIVE
(a church outreach plan I will teach you) then call me. I would love
nothing more than to partner with you. I don’t just simply want to
sell you another book.

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